my neighbor had me do some work on his ininiti J30, and while i'm replacing the window motor (again) i cant help thinking what a stupid and pointless car it is.



its not fast, doesnt get good mileage.



its so ugly that ugly cars feel relieved when they see one



and the one redeeming feature, the clock in the center of the dash? its broken.



so thats dumb, but you know what? EVERY nissan is like that....

Years ago, I was briefly acquainted with an '85 Sentra. It was not fun to work on, but it ran pretty well. Easy on gas too. A fairly competent econobox.



And I hear the twin turbo 300ZX's were the ultimate Japanese supercar.



But yeah, I don't think I could ever buy any Nissan. It seems everything they make is a tad quirky, and expensive relative to its peers.

you are working on the wrong old nissans....



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oh fer sher!

i hate nissans for one reason only, the whole deal with nissan.com which was owned and operated by a guy with the last name nissan and his company was nissan computer and they sued him for years over the deal.

How could they sue him? They were better off paying him an insane amount of money. And for the record I have never owned a Nissan. This RX7 is only the 2nd Japanese car I've ever owned. My other was a Protege.

He wouldnt sell it was his business

Well then sucks to be Nissan car corp. Sorry, you guys missed out.

IT'S A DATSUN MUTHERFORKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i lol @ nissans in public.



kevin.

I calls them floppy cocks cause the suspension and chassis is just that...one big floppy ****.

Yeah, **** Nissan. And Apple. And Myspace. And you.



Unique out.

Yea, my brother owns one, enough said.

My first car was a 10 year old Nissan sentra. Clean, very well maintained. What a piece of crap. Nissan seemed to use(and still does even in their newer Sentras) rubber bands for engine mounts, oh and also use a rod shift linkage. Neat. So when the engine and trans were dancing under hood you judt might be able to find some gears. I absolutely hate Nissans. I swore Nissans and FWD cars off after that. I tried out some Toyota's and Hondas and they seem to be a little better built.





I hate Nissans

Not only that, but I know now (since before buying the SA I was looking at a 240) that Nissan is the most retarded assed company ever. You may have an SR20DET swapped into your 240, and someone else might have a Sentra with a SR20DET but they are completely different engines. They won't even bolt up to the trans, and there s no way to make them fit. You have to have a FWD or RWD engine, even if it's the same engine designation. What kind of ******* retardedness is that?

That's what you get for buying a Nissan

Actually, I think the same situation applies to GM's 3.8 liter V6. It came in both FWD and RWD applications, and they're different.

I'm pretty sure you are wrong, but maybe that did apply for the Camaro one if anything? But if you buy a V6 Camaro you don't deserve to live anyway. My brother's g/f has a V6 auto Camaro, which admittedly was an upgrade from her beat-up stick 4-cyl Beretta. Still garbage though. I'm gonna go research this and report back.

You are semi-correct. It seems they just up and switched, but engines from the same years were still compatible. From Wiki:

Chevrolet V8 pattern

So named because it began with Chevrolet's V8 engines.



Chevrolet big-block V8's

Chevrolet small-block V8's

GM Vortec 4300 90° V6

GM Iron Duke RWD inline 4 (Early RWD Variants, later versions may use a FWD pattern, and have two possible starter locations)

Jeep 2.5L/151 in³ Jeep used the GM Iron Duke inline 4 1980-1983. These use a Chrysler Torqueflite 904 automatic transmission with a Chevrolet bellhousing.

Chevrolet Inline 6 (1963 on)

Chevrolet 153 Inline 4 (Chevy II, pre-Iron-Duke)



GM metric pattern

Also called the GM small corporate pattern

This pattern has a distinctive odd-sided hexagonal shape.



GM 60° V6 family FWD/RWD V6; 2.8/3.1/3.4 L

Buick FWD/RWD 90° 3800 V6

Cadillac 4.1/4.5/4.9 L V8

Isuzu 3.5L DOHC V6

1984-03 Jeep/AMC/Chrysler 2.5L/150 in³ I4 found in Jeep Cherokee, Wagoneer, Comanche, and Wrangler models (except Grand Wagoneer & Grand Cherokee) and 1996-2002 Dodge Dakotas.

Jeep/AMC 2.8L V6 (GM engine)

GM Iron Duke FWD inline 4

1984-93 GM Iron Duke/Tech-4 RWD inline 4

My last car was a 1990 240SX, I loved that car, everything worked no electrical gremlins like my rx7 has.



handled VERY nicely, better steering feel than my rx7. and easy to work on.

WFT is the altima for? every car that nissan makes now is identical isnt it?

Altima is just a Maxima with a different pricetag...

Yeah, I'm always amazed at that too. Could those cars be any more similar?

A 5speed Maxima (with the 6cyl) is the **** though, another league..

yeah its like the 350Z....

It's like a 350z on crack! My friend has one and he runs 9's all day long no NOZ!

You know why I like GM? Because I can take a V8 out of a suburban and put it in my ZR-2, needing only motor mounts, an electric fan and two wires wired into the ECU that is already in my truck. Talk about a simple swap. I love it.



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That's gay, you're gay.

Only for you cutie pie



- Hand

I was hoping you'd say that. *Flowers* /wink

Sorry, but that just shows how lazy GM is at making their cars. Some idiot goes "Gosh darn we need more torque in this car!" and then they put a truck engine in it that's so simple a lemur with downe's syndrome could do it. Doesn't exactly speak to their engineering prowess.

I fail to see the idiocy of putting a truck engine in a truck. That seems like a no brainer to me.



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My point is that they do it with everything, not just trucks. That's the idea of an American sports car for god sakes.

And the KA motor nissan used for the 240 didn't come out of a truck? Mazda used the same engine in the REPU and it's sport's cars of that day. Most auto companies will at least use some variation of another engine. Torque is good when it comes to acceleration, I wouldn't be complaining about that.



- Hand

truck engines have longer stroke making them produce more torque, usually with lower engine speeds though. Some cars on the drag circuit use truck engine blocks on their cars.. the engine is what it is.. the power it has whether it came from a truck or not can be used however the hell it is needed.. Diesel engines for heavy duty trucks are probably the ones more likely to be purpose built for truck duty... light duty trucks just usually get a different tune, and lower gears to get them moving.. its just a cost cutting thing that all the manufacturers will do if they see fit to use a already available engine.. Some manufacturers seem to do that more...

what chassis is the zr2? i have an 01 s10.. i think the code is like zq something.. its crazy how you can just do the swaps between the gm's like that.

Basically the same chasis as the regular s10. The differences; fully boxed frame, three inch wider stance and three inch suspension lift. All of the suspension points are different so you can't swap something from an s10 over to a zr2. But as long as you have a 4.3 you should be able to do the same thing, just swap in a 5.7 from around the same year. I thought that was a great thing, literally the only wiring you have to do is pin two new injectors.



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well the 4.3 is just a 5.7 with 2 cylinders missing anyways.....

thats the same argument my dad makes.



kinda like these



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZcaPD5iq8&feature=user



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUgWMl4ftdc...feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JerwmGstWEE&feature=user



notice the jag isnt slower in a straight line? and it handles and stops light years ahead of the US built cars?